| // Copyright 2019 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. | |
| // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style | |
| // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. | |
| package bytealg | |
| // Equal reports whether a and b | |
| // are the same length and contain the same bytes. | |
| // A nil argument is equivalent to an empty slice. | |
| // | |
| // Equal is equivalent to bytes.Equal. | |
| // It is provided here for convenience, | |
| // because some packages cannot depend on bytes. | |
| func Equal(a, b []byte) bool { | |
| // Neither cmd/compile nor gccgo allocates for these string conversions. | |
| // There is a test for this in package bytes. | |
| return string(a) == string(b) | |
| } | |